Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stokowski has not, as you infer given any grounds for the suggestion that he might come back next season as chief conductor...
...Although "FHA houses" has come to be a legitimate, if loose, expression, Reader Walkeen is correct: FHA does not build houses, simply insures mortgages on houses built to its speciftions. Garner partisans say his houses are cheaper, FHA partisans say FHA houses are much better built. Mr. Garner, as is his custom, says nothing...
Point was lent to this suggestion when Senator Taft accused the President of "ballyhooing" the foreign situation to divert public attention from trouble at home (see p. 21). This charge was so serious that it may well boomerang and should war come in Europe, it would point to Franklin Roosevelt as a statesman-who-foresaw, might well improve his chances of a third term...
...States come up here and ask for more and more money. Where does it come from? It comes from the pockets of your own people. We are signing the names of your children, and of children yet unborn, to pay off that 40 billion dollar debt. . . . You people out there look to Washington, but I look to the people. If the time ever comes when the American people are no longer able to operate their democratic system of government, that government will have to find a Hitler or a Mussolini to do its business...
...until Roosevelt I entered the White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called...